DIY Paper Sculptures
1,361 views · Published 16 March 2015 · 1:49 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: Home Made Simple · 2015 · Howto & Style
KEN: Hi it’s Kenneth Wingard from Home Made Simple on OWN. Today I’m going to show you how to take folded paper and make it into a sculpture. All it’s going to take is phonebooks, or some old like manuals. Take your page. Fold it down. SOLEIL: So what do I do now? Like can I do it like this? KEN: You can do it like that, and then you’re going to have one that’s going to be top heavy. Which is perfect. SOLEIL: Cool. Great. KEN: Which gives us a couple different looks. All you do is go through and bend each corner of each page down, and the bottom corner up. You are eventually going to get this. CLAUDINE: Ahh I get this concept. KEN: Exactly. And then what we’re going to do is we’re going to guild the pages, and then we’re going to hang them. And you do hang three, four, five of them. And they sort of float. SOLEIL: Cool. CLAUDINE: Pretty, right? SOLEIL: Let’s do it. CLAUDINE: I can see it. KEN: There you go. CLAUDINE: But I have a question. KEN: Yes, ma’am. How do you dust them? CLAUDINE: You know me! KEN: Your Swiffer 360 girl and this will take it off! That’s all you need. It’ll be beautiful. KEN: Once you’ve got all your papers folded, join your two halves together. Run a thick bead of hot glue down the inside binding. And take your second piece and glue it on top. Now while you still have the channel open, run a thick bead of rubber cement and lay your silk cord. Once you’ve got that in place run another thick bead of hot glue down the other side of the binding. And press the two halves completely together. Now that you’ve combined your pieces, all you have to do is finish off the end. For these I threaded them through a bead with a big hole in it, around a gold loop, and then I tucked the end of the cord back in. To add a finishing touch I wrapped gold wire around the bottom of the silk cord. To finish off the top I’m doing the same thing. I’ve done three of them and I’m going to hang them at three different heights in the corner. It’s going to create a lot of dimension and added depth. And really...it’s all from a phonebook. Amazing.
